Going To The Movies: Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones
The movie is based on the first book of Mortal Instruments young-adults series - City of Bones. I haven't read the books so I have no idea how closely the movie follows them but based on the fact that some of the things in the movie felt like a mad rush, I guess that they tried to fit as much as they could in 130 minutes of screen time.
The film follows the adventures of Clary (Lily Collins), a teenager who starts drawing a particular strange symbol, seeing things that other people can't see and other strange things that make her mother Jocelyn (Lena Headey) very worried. Then the mother is abducted and everything gets very complicated - angels, demons, runes, nephlims, witches, everything you can imagine plus a cup with super powers!
I don't want to ruin you the fun, so I'll just say that Clary finds herself in the middle of the whole mess, and on top of that there are two pretty awesome and very different boys that like like her. Is she lucky or what? So, while fighting super-villains who may or may not be related to her, choosing a boy and being special even for the world of super natural, Clary manages to save her mother. Oh, and she decides to follow her super-natural destiny because who wouldn't.
I wouldn't say that this is a great piece of cinematography but it's a good distraction for a quite evening in. Not sure if it's a movie I would actually pay to see in a movie theater but renting for a small amount it and seeing it with Mr.Boyfriend was about fine, More or less.
Grade: 5/10
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